Intellectual property law is good. Excess in intellectual property law is not. This blog is about excess in Canadian and international copyright law, trademarks law and patent law. I practice IP law with Macera & Jarzyna, LLP in Ottawa, Canada. I've also been in government and academe. My views are purely personal and don't necessarily reflect those of my firm or any of its clients. Nothing on this blog should be taken as legal advice.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Teksavvy is asking for $346,480.68 for its “reasonable costs” from Voltage Pictures

3. All reasonable legal costs, administrative costs and disbursements incurred by
TekSavvy in abiding by this Order shall be paid by the Plaintiff to TekSavvy.

4. The reasonable legal costs and disbursements of TekSavvy referred to in
paragraph 3 herein shall be paid prior to the release to the Plaintiff of the
information referred to in paragraph 2 herein.

Teksavvy is asking for the sum of $346,480.68 for its “reasonable costs”,
which includes almost $180,000 in legal fees. Here’s Teksavvy’s own summary of the costs it
seeks to recover:

Category
Costs

A.
Legal costs:

A.1
Stikeman Elliott LLP $ 123,580.98

A.2
Christian Tacit $ 54,240.00

B.
Administrative Costs:

B.1
Information Technology $ 27,092.50

B.2
Operations $ 81,524.18

C.
Disbursements:

C.1
TekSavvy Inc. $ 55,457.60

C.2
Stikeman Elliott LLP $ 4,585.42

Total:
$ 346,480.68

For its part, Voltage suggests that the maximum it
should pay for Teksavvy’s “reasonable costs”, including legal fees, for compliance
with Prothonotary Aalto’s order should be no more than $884.00.

That is quite some discrepancy. Full details are available in the hundreds of
pages of documents, including time dockets, affidavits and transcripts of
cross-examination that are available here, courtesy
of CIPPIC.

I could say a great deal about this matter, but I
won’t say any more at this time. I’ve already said a
lot in past blog posts.
In fact, all I will say now is that I
find it interesting that my past blog posts about this matter were referred to in the time dockets of Teksavvy’s lead outside counsel viewable via CIPPC’s website.